Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, best known for compiling A Dictionary of Thoughts, a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwardsin 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1 Corinthians 13, the "Love Chapter", titling the book "Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life", which was thought by some to be the most thorough analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.
We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.